Thanks for the tips.
the &#xxx; chars are here to stay it seems, without an easy way to convert them into browser readble %xx (eg. "é" -> "%E9")
I have tried your suggestions already. ISO vs. UTF or output method doesn't change the output in any way, unfortunately. :(
The data gets read out of a DB where the names are stored binary (I think)
here a part of the script:
---snip---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:param name="pageheight">200</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="pagewidth">400</xsl:param>
<!-- this template replaces the newlines in the text parameter with <br/>
and outputs the parameter -->
<xsl:template name="break">
<xsl:param name="text" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, ' ')">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="substring-before($text, ' ')"/>
<br/>
<xsl:call-template name="break">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,' ')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
.
.
.
<th align="left"><xsl:value-of select="/movieinfo/moviemetadata/field[@name='Actor']/@label"/></th>
...
<xsl:for-each select="cast/star">
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" class="value"><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?{person/lastname},+{person/firstname}"><xsl:apply-templates select="person"/></a></td>
<xsl:if test="character!=''">
<td class="value"><i><xsl:value-of select="character"/></i></td>
</xsl:if>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
---snip---
would it be possible to just use "substring-after" used in teh "break" template for all occurances of accented (&#xxx;) characters?
Thanks
Alex.
>From: "Thomas B. Passin"
